The Brookhaven leader., 1887-09-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

@. W. WILLIAMS, the extensive lumber
dealer and boat builder Of Kittaning, Pa,
who recently made an assignment, has fled
to Canada. His liabilities were 100000.
THE tenth annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Microscopical Society began in Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 3Oth.
PRANzINI, the murderer of Nine. Reg
nault, her maid and child, was executed
at Paris on the 31st. He struggled desper
ately with his executioners before being
guillotined. A bowling and disorderly mob
was present
G. A. CAMPBELL, an extensive coal dealer
at Chelsea, Mass, has suspended payment.
The liabilities will reach 1850, 900, with as
sets of $3.50, 900. The failure was caused by
the collapse in Philadelphia.
The firm Of Nanzesheimer q Klein, the
largest wholesale dealers in general mer-
chandlse in TeXarkana, Ark, has been
closed up on attachments aggregating
1893 900.
AN aeronaut named Blakesly fell from
trapeze bar at Princeton, Mo, on the 3lst
when his balloon was at height of 400
feet and he was horribly mashed to death.
GEORGE s. HALL, farmer, was burned to
death recently by the burning OF j. d.
Coles barn at Detroit, Mich.
Two engines met in collision on the St
Paul & Duluth road at st. Paul, Mimi, the
other day. both engineers being terribly
injured and the engines wrecked
THE Baltimore & Ohio Express Com
pany's business has been sold to the United
States Express Company Jay Gould is
said to be the real purchaser, and reports
state that Garrett has also sold the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad and telegraph, or
ho n hands
Drexel, Morgan & Co. syndicate, being
hard up for money.
THE ronto basin country in Arizona has
been the scene of more murders Eleven
murders were committed in two weeks.
The two factions were fighting over the
possession of a spring
The public debt statement for August
showed decrease during the month Of
81, SO9,475.
THE Canadian steamer Hastings has been
seized by the customs collector at Niagara
Falls, N Y, for carrying passengers be-
tween American ports without obeying the
law.
THE authorities of Atlanta, Ga, have for
hidden Passion play by colored people as
sacrilegious.
THE coinage of the mints in August ag-
gregated 9,282, 900 pieces, valued at S3, 3O3,-
500. OF these 2, 1870, 900 were silver dollars
THE Ratlscay Age, of Chicago, says: 1T
now seems probable that the number of
miles of new road constructed in the United
States during 1887 will be about 12.OOO
This figure is the greatest on record. Kan
sas still continues far in the lead over the
other States in the work Of railway con-
struction."
FRANK MCNEILLY, who robbed the Saco
and Biddeford (Me.) Savings Bank Of a
large amount, is considered by his friends
to be insane.
THE vapor stove makers are contemplat-
ing move to form trust company.
JOSIAH TERRILL, for the murder of
Charles Phelps in Meigs County, was
hanged in the Jail at Columbus, O., at mid
night on the 1st.
THE statistics Of immigration at Castle
Garden for the month Of August show that
a. 265 immigrants were landed, as against
25, 266 in August. 1885 This Is an increase
Of ], 900 for the month. The total immigra-
ton this year to date Is 267, ,784, being an
increase Of 69s7 over the same period OF
last year.
MAIL advioes indicate that the troubles in
Havana were not SO serious ss reported by
telegraph.